"You mean I'm a lackey now?" and other Aesop fables

So, I've started my TA position, which is going fairly well. I'm TAing for a GenEd World Music class, and the kids seem nice. I assistant-proctored an exam today, and I feel sort of valued. The basics of the position seem to fit into the "lackey" category, however. Here are the things I am supposed to do each class day (in order):

1. Get to class 10 minutes early
2. Open the classroom for waiting students
3. Move piano out of the way
4. Go across the hall, unlock the storage room, and retrieve PowerPoint projector and/or television as needed
5. Boot up the classroom Mac
6. Set up the professor's PowerPoint presentation from his portable hard drive (the "Cruzer")
7. Turn on and set up speaker system
8. Connect professor's Ipod to speaker system
9. Sit through class until it is done, put everything away.

I suspect that much more work will come to me, based on certain experiences (like earlier in the week when he said "We'll take the tests up to Computer Services after the test on Friday" only today he sent me up there alone when I had never been to Computer Services before, and today when he said "I'll be back five minutes...wait five minutes and hand out the scantron sheets and then if I'm not back yet have them fill them out with their names as per the instructions on the board" and then he was gone for 10 minutes, and the meetings we're going to have on Wednesdays so he can give me "projects to work on"), but I have been assigned to the professor for 7 hours of work a week and I intend to do that amount of work and not more. All the same, he's been very nice so far and I don't think he'll have an objection to my sticking to the rules.

In other news, this morning was extremely stressful because in Vocal Topics, there was a guy who came to talk to us about sports psychology. I found out after arriving in the class that he was also a hypnotist. Now, those of you who know me know that I am not fond of hypnotism at all (and by "am not fond" I mean "have extreme fight or flight responses that feel like heart attacks when I am confronted with it"), and it was long before I could even say the word without feeling extremely uncomfortable. It scares me and gives me the heebeegeebees. I don't go within 100 ft of a hypnotist and when they come to campus to do shows, I leave. Needless to say that during the hour of class with this man I was extremely distressed, much more so because his experiences with hypnosis formed the basis of his talk. I almost cried. I was very uncomfortable. I fidgeted. I sweated. I wanted to leave. Like, a lot. All the same, I didn't want to look like a tool so I sat there for an hour and tried to be polite and also not pay attention to him at all and then peaced extremely quickly. Ugh.

Other than that, not much of note to mention. Tough week in general. Will be home tonight after Opera Chorus rehearsal because have rehearsal with Lauralyn tomorrow morning at 11:15 at the Munstitute and the recital on Sunday. Then will return to the Bing.